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Daily Dairy Report

The Daily Dairy Report provides a one-page daily summary of the domestic and global dairy markets, prices, supply and demand fundamentals, and CME cash and futures dairy trading activity. In addition to analyzing the latest report and current market activity, Daily Dairy Report Analysts will connect the dots by explaining what information and data are important and why. Mary Ledman, one of the dairy industry’s most respected market commentators, is the editor of the Daily Dairy Report and is support by market analysts Sara Dorland and Sarina Sharp and Karen Endres, Communications Specialist. (The report is an Adobe PDF file and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to preview).

CME Group Spot Dairy Product Prices ($/lb.) May 16, 2012
	Final	Change	Trades	Bids	Offers
Butter	$1.3550	+$0.0025	6	0	0
Cheddar Blocks	$1.5000	NC	1	0	0
Cheddar Barrels	$1.4600	+$0.0100	0	1	0
NDM Grade A	$1.1225	NC	0	0	1
NDM Extra Grade	$1.0825	NC	0	0	0

CME Group Spot Dairy Product Prices ($/lb.) Week of May 14
	Mon.	Tues.	Wed.	Thurs.	Fri.	Current Avg.	Prior Week Avg.	Weekly Volume
Butter	$1.3400	$1.3525	$1.3550			$1.3492	$1.3065	6
Cheddar Blocks	$1.5000	$1.5000	$1.5000			$1.5000	$1.5025	1
Cheddar Barrels	$1.4500	$1.4500	$1.4600			$1.4533	$1.4540	1
NDM Grade A	$1.1225	$1.1225	$1.1225			$1.1225	$1.1265	1
NDM Extra Grade	$1.0825	$1.0825	$1.0825			$1.0825	$1.0865	0

CME Future Settlement Prices Week of May 14
	Contract	Mon.	Tues.	Wed.	Thurs.	Fri.
Class III	JUN	$14.70	$14.87	$15.25
Class IV	JUN	$13.45	$13.60	$13.60
Cheese	JUN	$1.479	$1.495	$1.533
Whey	MAY	$0.55750	$0.55750	$0.55750
NDM	MAY	$1.19250	$1.19250	$1.19000
Butter	MAY	$1.33525	$1.3450	$1.3450
Corn	JUL	$5.8300	$5.9725	$6.2000
Corn	DEC	$5.0550	$5.1450	$5.2625
Soybeans	JUL	$13.8700	$14.1300	$14.2200
Soybeans	NOV	$12.9475	$13.0500	$13.0225
Live Cattle	JUN	$1.16150	$1.16425	$1.16875